>Russian general Abachev loses arm and leg after strike in Kursk region
Lieutenant General Esedulla Abachev, deputy commander of Russia’s “North” group of forces, has undergone emergency amputations of an arm and a leg in Moscow after being seriously wounded in a Ukrainian strike, HUR reported.
>/2. According to HUR, Ukrainian units hit a Russian column on the Rylsk–Khomutovka highway during the night of August 16–17.
Abachev was urgently airlifted by military transport aircraft to the Central Clinical Hospital named after Vishnevsky in Moscow, where surgeons carried out the amputations.